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The Importance Of High Quality Auto Paint

There’s all kinds of different paints. House paints, metal paints, spray paints, the list goes on and on. Each and every paint is slightly different, created in a way that it allows the paint to function the right way for the thing it’s painting. Yet even paints that are the same kind of paint still have differences. Not all paints are created equal.

Auto paint is especially like this. There are so many different qualities of paint that you can use as car paint, it can be tempting to go for the cheapest stuff. This is an understandable desire, given how expensive getting your car painted can be. It can easily cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to paint a car.

It only gets more expensive the more complex the paint job. Given that, it’s no wonder so many people want to go as cheap with the paint as humanly possible. Sometimes, it’s the only possible way to get the car painted at all!

Yet at the same time, you should avoid getting a cheap paint job. There are a number of reasons for this. One of the primary ones is that cheap paint jobs often use cheap labor, which in turns means you have someone working cheaply on your car.

People don’t work for cheap if they know they can command a high price, which means you’re liable to have a bad paint job. That can completely ruin your car, and make you have to get a second paint job just to cover up the problems with the first. Then your cheap paint job costs twice as much!

However, labor isn’t the only reason to avoid cheap paint jobs. Many times, cheap paint jobs tend to use cheap paint. This may not seem like a problem, but cheap auto paint is often low quality paint. The chemical bonds don’t hold together quite as well, which means the paint is more likely to chip off.

This means that any slight scratch and ding can result in having huge chunks of your car’s paint ripped off. That would be bad enough by itself, but it gets worse.

Low quality auto paint not only tends to chip off more easily, it also doesn’t protect your car from the elements nearly as well. One of the primary jobs of painting a surface is to protect that surface from sun, wind, and rain. High quality paint helps do that by creating a protective layer over the thing you paint.

In this case, the high quality paint protects your car when you’re driving around. Low quality paint doesn’t protect nearly as well. Thus, when you have to drive through rain, the water is more likely to get to the metal body of your car.

This leads to your car rusting out more quickly, which leads to your car needing to be replaced more quickly. That cheap paint job could wind up costing you the price of brand new car!

Paint jobs can get expensive, no one is denying that. It can be incredibly tempting to go as cheap as you can, and simply hope and pray that it turns out alright. Yet when it comes to your car, you can’t really afford to do that.

You need your car to last as long as possible, and part of protecting your car is making sure you’re getting it painted with high quality paint. So when you’re looking to get a new paint job, don’t just go for the cheap price. Make sure you’re getting it painted with high quality paint.

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A & J Collision Repair is a full service auto body repair shop. We are located at 1215 Thomas G. Wilson Drive in Conway Arkansas 72032. Come by and visit or give us a call at 501.205.1218.
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